The role of city size and urban form in the surface urban heat island.

abstract：:Ionizing radiation (IR)-induced intestinal damage is characterized by a loss of intestinal crypt cells, intestinal barrier disruption and translocation of intestinal microflora resulting in sepsis-mediated lethality. We have shown that mice lacking C/EBPδ display IR-induced intestinal and hematopoietic injury and leth...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Banerjee S,Fu Q,Shah SK,Melnyk SB,Sterneck E,Hauer-Jensen M,Pawar SA

更新日期：2019-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocyte Enhancer Factor 2 (MEF2) mediates cardiac remodelling in heart failure (HF) and is also a target of β-adrenergic signalling, a front-line treatment for HF. We identified global gene transcription networks involved in HF with and without β-blocker treatment. Experimental HF by transverse aortic constriction (TA...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tobin SW,Hashemi S,Dadson K,Turdi S,Ebrahimian K,Zhao J,Sweeney G,Grigull J,McDermott JC

更新日期：2017-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:An available pathway to prepare the ionized covalent organic nanosheets (iCONs) has been proposed by a metal-assisted aqueous-phase exfoliation route from covalent organic frameworks. The soluble and belt-shaped iCONs could immobilize a large quantity of proteins (2.73 mg/mg, BSA/iCONs) and hence serve as transporters...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kong W,Wan J,Namuangruk S,Guo J,Wang C

更新日期：2018-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Smoking is a major risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); however, more than 25% of COPD patients are non-smokers, and gene-by-smoking interactions are expected to affect COPD onset. We aimed to identify the common genetic variants interacting with pack-years of smoking on FEV1/FVC ratios in ind...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Park B,An J,Kim W,Kang HY,Koh SB,Oh B,Jung KJ,Jee SH,Kim WJ,Cho MH,Silverman EK,Park T,Won S

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeted protein degradation (TPD) through a proteasome-dependent pathway induced by heterofunctional small molecules is initiated by the formation of a ternary complex with recruited E3 ligases. This complex formation affects the degradation ability of TPD molecules, and thus we tested for visualization of the intrac...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kaji T,Koga H,Kuroha M,Akimoto T,Hayata K

更新日期：2020-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the innate immune response to vaccination is critical in vaccine design. Here, we studied blood innate myeloid cells after first and second immunization of cynomolgus macaques with the modified vaccinia virus Ankara. The inflammation at the injection site was moderate and resolved faster after the boost....

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Palgen JL,Tchitchek N,Elhmouzi-Younes J,Delandre S,Namet I,Rosenbaum P,Dereuddre-Bosquet N,Martinon F,Cosma A,Lévy Y,Le Grand R,Beignon AS

更新日期：2018-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:High operating temperatures can have very deleterious effects on the long-term performance of high-Cr, creep-resistant steels used, for example, in the structural components of power plants. For the popular creep-resistant steel X20CrMoV12.1 we analysed the processes of carbide growth using a variety of analytical tec...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Godec M,Skobir Balantič DA

更新日期：2016-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Amplicon based metabarcoding promises rapid and cost-efficient analyses of species composition. However, it is disputed whether abundance estimates can be derived from metabarcoding due to taxon specific PCR amplification biases. PCR-free approaches have been suggested to mitigate this problem, but come with considera...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Krehenwinkel H,Wolf M,Lim JY,Rominger AJ,Simison WB,Gillespie RG

更新日期：2017-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The rectifying properties of α,ω-dithiol terminated oligo(phenylene ethynylene) molecules sandwiched between heterometallic electrodes, including the molecular length and side group effects, are theoretically investigated using the fully self-consistent nonequilibrium Green's function method combined with density func...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fu XX,Zhang RQ,Zhang GP,Li ZL

更新日期：2014-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) has been shown to be a novel therapy for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). However, previous studies did not examine the diverse effects of different-session ESWT for different-grades CTS. Thus, we conducted a randomized, single-blind, placebo-controlled study. Sixty-nine...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ke MJ,Chen LC,Chou YC,Li TY,Chu HY,Tsai CK,Wu YT

更新日期：2016-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Quality control of human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) can be performed by several methods. These methods are usually relatively labor-intensive, difficult to standardize, or they do not facilitate reliable quantification. Here, we describe a biomarker to distinguish between pluripotent and non-pluripotent ce...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lenz M,Goetzke R,Schenk A,Schubert C,Veeck J,Hemeda H,Koschmieder S,Zenke M,Schuppert A,Wagner W

更新日期：2015-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The d-band center model of Hammer and Nørskov is widely used in understanding and predicting catalytic activity on transition metal (TM) surfaces. Here, we demonstrate that this model is inadequate for capturing the complete catalytic activity of the magnetically polarized TM surfaces and propose its generalization. W...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bhattacharjee S,Waghmare UV,Lee SC

更新日期：2016-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Innate immunity is induced when pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) bind host pattern recognition receptors (PRRs). Polyinosinic:polycytidylic acid [poly(I:C)] is a synthetic analogue of viral dsRNA that acts as a PAMP, inducing type I interferons (IFNs) in vertebrates. In the present study, the immunostimu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Alkie TN,de Jong J,Jenik K,Klinger KM,DeWitte-Orr SJ

更新日期：2019-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Dye-sensitised solar cells (DSCs) are a promising substitute for conventional silicon solar cells. A scattering layer of submicrometer pores or particles has been widely introduced to achieve a high light-harvesting efficiency. However, many such fabrication processes require high temperatures and multiple steps to pr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ha SJ,Moon JH

更新日期：2014-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to identify genes for which the expression within carotid atherosclerosis was reproducibly associated with the symptoms of cerebral embolization. Two publically available microarray datasets E-MEXP-2257 and GSE21545 were analysed using GeneSpring 11.5. The two datasets utilized a total of 22 ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Biros E,Moran CS,Maguire J,Holliday E,Levi C,Golledge J

更新日期：2017-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Short-term exposures to outdoor air pollutants have been associated with lower lung function, but the results are inconsistence. The effects of different pollutant levels on lung function changes are still unclear. We quantified the effects of outdoor air pollution exposure (NO2, PM10, O3, and PM2.5) on lung function ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhou Y,Liu Y,Song Y,Xie J,Cui X,Zhang B,Shi T,Yuan J,Chen W

更新日期：2016-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Confident characterization of the microheterogeneity of protein glycosylation through identification of intact glycopeptides remains one of the toughest analytical challenges for glycoproteomics. Recently proposed mass spectrometry (MS)-based methods still have some defects such as lack of the false discovery rate (FD...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zeng WF,Liu MQ,Zhang Y,Wu JQ,Fang P,Peng C,Nie A,Yan G,Cao W,Liu C,Chi H,Sun RX,Wong CC,He SM,Yang P

更新日期：2016-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoluminal surgery for the treatment of colorectal neoplasia is typically carried out using electrocautery tools which imply limited precision and the risk of harm through collateral thermal damage to the adjacent healthy tissue. As a potential alternative, we present the successful colonic epithelial laser ablation ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Beck RJ,Bitharas I,Hand DP,Maisey T,Moore AJ,Shires M,Thomson RR,West NP,Jayne DG,Shephard JD

更新日期：2020-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates physicochemical impact of ultrasonic irradiations on surface topography of woven fabrics. In a simultaneous in-situ sonochemical method, the synthesis and coating of zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) on woven textiles were successfully achieved. Different instruments i.e. Alambeta, moisture ma...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Noman MT,Petru M,Amor N,Louda P

更新日期：2020-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) are increasingly used as a versatile research tool to investigate membrane structure, morphology and phase state. In these studies, GUV preparation is typically enhanced by an externally applied electric field, a process called electroformation. We find that upon osmotic deflation, GU...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Steinkühler J,De Tillieux P,Knorr RL,Lipowsky R,Dimova R

更新日期：2018-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We show an annual overview of the sea-air CO2 exchanges and primary drivers in the Gerlache Strait, a hotspot for climate change that is ecologically important in the northern Antarctic Peninsula. In autumn and winter, episodic upwelling events increase the remineralized carbon in the sea surface, leading the region t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Monteiro T,Kerr R,Machado EDC

更新日期：2020-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Beneficial and deleterious mutations change an organism's fitness but the distribution of these mutational effects on fitness are unknown. Several experimental, theoretical, and computational studies have explored this question but are limited because of experimental restrictions, or disconnect with physiology. Here w...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Brajesh RG,Dutta D,Saini S

更新日期：2019-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Fitting Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE) models of signal transduction networks (STNs) to experimental data is a challenging problem. Computational parameter fitting algorithms simulate a model many times with different sets of parameter values until the simulated STN behaviour match closely with experimental data...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Santra T

更新日期：2018-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells grown in three-dimensional (3D) cultures are more likely to have native cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions than in 2D cultures that impose mechanical constraints to cells. However, most 3D cultures utilise gel matrix which, while serving as a scaffold, limits application due to its solid and opaque nature an...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Abe-Fukasawa N,Otsuka K,Aihara A,Itasaki N,Nishino T

更新日期：2018-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:PDA is a major cause of US cancer-related deaths. Oncogenic Kras presents in 90% of human PDAs. Kras mutations occur early in pre-neoplastic lesions but are insufficient to cause PDA. Other contributing factors early in disease progression include chronic pancreatitis, alterations in epigenetic regulators, and tumor s...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Layeghi-Ghalehsoukhteh S,Pal Choudhuri S,Ocal O,Zolghadri Y,Pashkov V,Niederstrasser H,Posner BA,Kantheti HS,Azevedo-Pouly AC,Huang H,Girard L,MacDonald RJ,Brekken RA,Wilkie TM

更新日期：2020-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart failure after myocardial infarction (MI) depends on infarct size and adverse left ventricular (LV) remodelling, both influenced by the inflammatory response. Leukocyte-associated immunoglobulin-like receptor 1 (LAIR-1) is an inhibitory receptor of ITAM-dependent cell activation, present on almost all immune cell...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ellenbroek GHJM,de Haan JJ,van Klarenbosch BR,Brans MAD,van de Weg SM,Smeets MB,de Jong S,Arslan F,Timmers L,Goumans MTH,Hoefer IE,Doevendans PA,Pasterkamp G,Meyaard L,de Jager SCA

更新日期：2017-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Spin-coated self-assemblies of colloidal particles have been developed recently as an attractive close-packed monolayer of the particles for a variety of applications, but they are limited by the small area of their monolayers, especially given their low uniformity and monolayer coverage on large-area substrates. We r...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Park B,Na SY,Bae IG

更新日期：2019-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals differ in their level of general anxiety as well as in their level of anxiety towards specific activities, such as mathematics and spatial tasks. Both specific anxieties correlate moderately with general anxiety, but the aetiology of their association remains unexplored. Moreover, the factor structure of s...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Malanchini M,Rimfeld K,Shakeshaft NG,Rodic M,Schofield K,Selzam S,Dale PS,Petrill SA,Kovas Y

更新日期：2017-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Rice bacterial blight caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) is a major rice disease. In Taiwan, the tropical indica type of Oryza sativa originally grown in this area is mix-cultivated with the temperate japonica type of O. sativa, and this might have led to adaptive changes of both rice host and Xoo isolates....

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chien CC,Chou MY,Chen CY,Shih MC

更新日期：2019-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Different marine habitats are characterised by different soundscapes. How or which differences may be representative of the habitat characteristics and/or community structure remains however to be explored. A growing project in passive acoustics is to find a way to use soundscapes to have information on the habitat an...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bertucci F,Parmentier E,Lecellier G,Hawkins AD,Lecchini D

更新日期：2016-09-15 00:00:00